The FLSA is generally silent as to how often employees must be paid or how soon their employers must pay them after performing services. These issues are left up to the individual states. Your problem employees are in Minnesota. Generally, employees in that state must be paid every 31 days (there are special provisions for public service employees, employers with at least 30 migrant workers, and employees paid commissions). For employees who must be paid every 31 days, the lag time before pay is 31 days; wages earned in the first half of the 31-day period are due on the first regular pay day. See Table 2.1 of APA's Guide to State Payroll Laws. Pages to retain on new Form W-4 Q. Which pages does the employer need to keep on the new 2020 Form W-4? Does the employer just need to keep page 1, or do we need to keep all the pages which include the worksheets? A. The employer needs to retain only page 1 of the 2020 Form W-4, since that is the part given to the employer by the employee. Paper timesheets scanned to PDF during pandemic Q. Our company still uses paper timesheets but since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been accepting timesheets electronically from our supervisors for their employees. The supervisors complete the paper timesheets and then scan them to us in PDF format. Do we still need to keep the original paper timesheet or is the electronic scanned format acceptable to serve as an employment record? 83 Recordkeeping and Record Retention 10 APA's Top Payroll Questions & Answers for 2020https://bookshelf.americanpayroll.org/state_payroll/ https://bookshelf.americanpayroll.org/state_payroll/